• GreatGrapeApe@reddthat.com
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    If you keep more than you need, yes. Socialism is not about hoarding wealth especially in the form of necessary goods.

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      Who gets to decide how much I need? Some juche thug in the capital wearing a bunch of fake military ribbons? Sign me up!

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        IDK, maybe we could decide such things similar to how we’re having this conversation and we’re able to upvote on what’s being said. Totally unprecedented I know.

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          Do you think there’s voting involved in a command economy?

          My brother in Marx, that’s not how any of this works.

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            Me: how about democracy in the work place?

            Reactionaries: but what about Stalin?

            Me: did I stutter?